Improvement in egg-carriers



UNITED STATES WATSON DUCHEMIN, OF CHARLOTTETOWN, PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND. I

PATENT QEEICE.

,Y IMPROVEMENT IN EGG-CARRIERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 116,280, dated J une 27, 1871; antedated June l17', 1871.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it Aknown that I, WATSON DUGHEMIN, of Charlottetown, in Queens county and Prince Edward Island, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Transportation-Boxes, of which the following is a complete specification:

The nature of my invention consists in arranging a series of open-work pockets, each series being protected by rigid partitions, forholding eggs or other delicate articles, in a section of a box, and in combining these sections so that they together constitute asafe and secure box for trans portation.

Figure 1 is a perspective view, showing a box complete with the sections united. Fig. 2 is a perspective view, showing a part of one of the sections. Fig. 3 is a vertical section through the box. 1

A Al A2 A3, in Figs. l and 3, are sections, each one of which is constructed of a series of rigid partitions, L L, Sto., Fig. 2, and of straps H H H and E E E, Figs. 2 and 3, interwoven with each other and with the cords K K and M M, &c., be-

ing held laterally by notches d d in the partitions L L, as shown in the drawing. The sections A A1, &c., are formed or" two parts, A and C, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3, and are so arranged as to form a rabbet at each edge, so that one section may fit into the next below or above it. D and D represent screw-bolts which pass down through all the sections and screw into nuts in the lower section, thus holding all the sections together. As the lower section is provided with a bottom and the upper with a top or cover, B,

the whole constitutes a complete and safe box 

